A new report from the Appalachian Regional Commission indicates that for the countless rural people who lost loved ones to diseases of despair, the pandemic is still an emergency. Living deep in ...

As people from Appalachia have learned, stereotypes perpetuated by commercial media outlets usually validate the views of urban investors who seek to exploit natural resources that are abundant in ...

Why do people have a hard time stopping? We need to answer these questions to ever have a chance of getting a handle on addiction in rural regions like Appalachia where there are problems with ...

But while many people from that generation have ... The boomer shift has caused a sudden population surge in Appalachian areas that were previously rural. It has "brought forth a sort of whiplash ...

Many Appalachian scholars thought it trafficked ... politics, the media and rural working-class people than anything else. "'Hillbilly Elegy' was so popular at the start, and all of a sudden ...

Central Appalachia is home to the third-largest ... from rents as opposed to income from production that employs people. Rural communities have acutely felt the effects of increasing rentierism ...